Frequently Asked Questions.
  
  
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    Why a font editor, aren't there
    enough fonts already?
  
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    Why doesn't fontforge use the native
    MS Windows or Mac windowing system?
  
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    Is it legal to modify a font? Is it
    ethical?
  
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    What is a 12 point font?
  
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    How do I set the line spacing on
    a font?
  
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    How big will my glyphs be?
  
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    What's a good license to use on an
    open source font?
  
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    How do I install the fonts once
    I've made them?
  
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    Why won't FontForge's
    fonts install on some MS windows machines?
  
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    How do I edit fonts from my macintoy?
  
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    How do create a mac font family?
    (How do I get the mac to group my fonts so that the italic and bold styles
    work)?
  
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    Why doesn't ATM work with my fonts?
  
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    How do I edit fonts on MS windows?
  
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    Why don't my fonts work
    on windows?
  
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    I have a truetype font with opentype
    tables, but windows displays the "TT" (truetype) icon and not the "O" icon.
    Why?
  
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    When I load an otf or a type1
    font most of my references have been replaced by inline copies. How do I
    get my references back?
  
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    Does FontForge read in the old
    kerning information from fonts?
  
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    How do I convert from
    one outline font format to another?
  
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    How do I convert from one
    bitmap format to another?
  
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    How do I convert from an outline
    format to a bitmap format?
  
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    How do I convert from a bitmap
    format to an outline format?
  
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    How do I convert from AAT to
    OpenType?
  
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    How do I convert from OpenType to
    AAT?
  
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    How do I make it use hint
    substitution?
  
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    How do I make it use flex hints?
  
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    My glyphs are all perfectly hinted, why
    do some stems have different widths (or appear fuzzy, or fade away
    completely)?
  
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    Why does fontforge say "Error
    loading dynamic library" when trying to import an image file?
  
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    Why does fontforge say "EPS file
    is too complex to be understood"?
  
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    How do I set a particular bit in the
    OS/2 table (or any other)?
  
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    FontForge's grey background distresses
    me. How do I change it?
  
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    The fonts FontForge uses in its
    GUI are too small (too big) how do I change them?
  
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    How do I mark a font as
    monospaced?
  
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    How do I tell fontforge about
    a new encoding?
  
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    How do I add a glyph with a new
    name?
  
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    Why does fontforge give some glyphs
    the wrong name?
  
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    Why isn't my Open Type font much
    smaller than the .pfb file?
  
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    What's the difference between
    OpenType and PostScript (or TrueType) fonts?
  
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    What is the difference between AAT
    (Apple Advanced Typography) and OpenType?
  
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    Why does a font, which worked
    fine under 10.3 fail on Mac 10.4 (Tiger)?
  
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    After I generate a font and
    quit, why does FontForge ask if I want to save the font? I didn't change
    anything.
  
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    Why doesn't TeX work with my fonts?
  
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    Why doesn't FontForge let me edit
    an '.mf' file?
  
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    Why does my window get iconified
    when I want to minify the view?
  
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    Why isn't there a character named "mu"
    in my greek font? (or "Delta", or "Omega", or "pi1")
  
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    Why doesn't Edit->Copy copy
    glyph names as well as glyph info?
  
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    Why does Edit->Paste complain
    about name duplication?
  
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    What on earth are the cidmap files,
    and should I care about them?
  
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    (What is a CID-keyed font?)
  
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    Does the simplify command lose
    accuracy?
  
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    How does FontForge convert
    a cubic spline into a quadratic spline for truetype?
  
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    How do I set the default glyph
    of a font?
  
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    I loaded a ttf font, made a few
    changes and generated a new font. The changed glyphs don't look anywhere
    near as nice as the originals. Why?
  
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    I generated an opentype (or truetype)
    font and windows wouldn't install it. Why not?
  
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    I looked at kaiu.ttf or mingliu.ttf
    and the outlines looked nothing like the correct glyphs. What's wrong?
  
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    When I use
    Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build one of the Extended Greek
    glyphs (U+1F00-U+1FFF) FontForge picks the wrong accents. Why?
  
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    When I use
    Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build accents over "u" or "y"
    I get the accent over one of the stems not centered on the glyph. Why?
  
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    Why does ttf2afm crash on FontForge
    ttf files?
  
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    Where can I find a list of known
    bugs in FontForge?
  
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    My system keeps crashing because
    FontForge keeps running out of memory. What can I do about it?
  
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    Why is FontForge so unstable?
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